US TikTok customers went nuts Sunday over the controversial app’s fast return from the useless.
Devotees of the Chinese language-run social-media platform wasted no time celebrating the ban reprieve orchestrated by President-elect Donald Trump simply hours after the platform went darkish.
“Back in action,” a consumer crowed on X after the service was reactivated. “It was a terrible sleepover over Instagram but thanks for hosting us.”
Different individuals wrote they have been shocked how shortly the app was up and operating once more.
“The whiplash I’m getting from TikTok disappearing only for it to be back now? Insane,” an X consumer wrote. “I knew it would happen, but still lol”
One other individual posted, “TikTok has resurrected” — whereas others merely stated, “Back babyyyy!”
Amongst these chiming in was billionaire and X proprietor Elon Musk, a Trump adviser.
“I have been against a TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of speech,” Musk wrote in a publish. “That said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but X is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced. Something needs to change.”
The app has been a lighting rod for controversy for months over concern that it’s a device for Chinese language spy operations. A ban on its use within the US gained bipartisan help in April — and a unanimous US Supreme Court docket signed off on the transfer to drag the plug on it.
However TikTok discovered an unlikely champion in Donald Trump, who is because of start his second time period within the White Home on Monday and stated he would signal an government order to present the app a 90-day reprieve fo divest itself from China.
“We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive,” TikTok Coverage wrote on X on Sunday.
TikTok stated the app has greater than 170 million customers within the US, and that about 7 million small companies within the nation depend on it to advertise their items and providers.
However not everybody on-line was celebrating the app’s fast — if maybe non permanent — revival.
“I don’t know about the rest but personally I’m happy that TikTok is banned if anything just for a couple of days so the mentally ill stop broadcasting their insanity to the world,” an X consumer quipped.
